Middle East correspondent for the Independent newspaper in London; author of The Jihadis Return: ISIS and the New Sunni Uprising, The Occupation: War and Resistance in Iraq, Muqtada: Muqtada al-Sadr, the Shia Revival, and the Struggle for Iraq and The Rise of Islamic State: ISIS and the New Sunni Revolution
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